Laboratory for cloning mammoths appeared in Russia – Amic.ru

In Yakutia in August, opened the country’s first laboratory for the study of cell and tissue DNA of fossil animals. Its main task – to search for living cells of extinct animals, including mammoths, for further cloning, according to the publishing house “Kommersant”.

“This is a challenge for biologists, physicists were for” catching ”
 the Higgs boson, and for doctors – a cure for cancer. Return
 mammoths, scientists believe, will divide human history into “before” and
 “after”. A state capable of a similar breakthrough, will become the leader
 a new direction. In Russia for such a breakthrough has all the chances, because
 that we have a powerful resource, which in so many found nowhere else in
  world, this resource – a cold, “- quoted by” Kommersant “the director of the Museum of Mammoth in Yakutsk
 Semyon Grigoriev.

Permafrost Yakutia allows to keep the soft tissues of animals and acts as a preservative by which mummified animals.

To to clone a mammoth, merged North-Eastern Federal University, the Korean Fund
 Sooam biotechnology research and Beijing Institute of Genomics. The sides signed an agreement on joint cooperation and are now working on how to unfreeze the cells without destroying their structure.

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Sometimes specialists find some entire cell nucleus, but the process of thawing destroys their structure . Of particular concern is the cell DNA.

Director of the Zoological Museum of the Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences Alexei Tikhonov said that cloning extinct animals is far
 perspective. However, the obtained data allow us to now
 learn new facts about the planet’s past.